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A25853	The nevv heresie of the Jesuits publickly maintain'd at Paris in the Colledge of Clermont, by conclusions, printed 12 Decemb., 1661, denounced to all the bishops of France / translated out of the French original.; Nouvelle hérésie des Jésuites. English	Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing A3730; ESTC R15927	16,007	24

certain facts which we are sure were never revealed by God as whether such Propositions be found in a Book compos'd in the 17 th AGE These are not consequences drawn by others out of their Doctrine They themselves infer them and make them passe for Catholick Assertions according to the Title of their Conclusions There is then in the Church an infallible Judge of controversies of Faith even out of a General Council as well for questions of right as of fact And that we may not doubt of their meaning by questions of Fact though the word it self of Fact taken in opposition to that of Law or Right doth sufficiently clear it they alleage for an example and a consequence of this new infallibility of Jesus Christ communicated to the Pope that after the foresaid Constitutions one may beleive with Divine Faith that Jansenius his book is heretical and that the five Propositions are truly this Authors Vnde post Innocentij X Alexandri VII Constitutiones fide divina credi p●test librum cui titulus est Jansenij Augustinus esse haereticum quinque propositiones ex eo decerptas esse Jansenii Behold the Proposition which they publickly advance in the face of the greatest City of the World nor will it be amisse to take notice of the origin and date thereof For these same men that now so boldly maintain it had for some time agoe laid the seeds of it in their other writings and it was easily discernable that their whole conduct was to be built upon this error They had severally exposed the Inferences in one place and the Principles in an other but still with certain windings and intricacy of words that might as occasion served be a cloak to them It is now in fine that they discover to the Church without any maske what they pretend to establish Let the whole Church then hear and take notice that the 12 of December in the year 1661. was the day on which the Jesuits brought to light this monstrous opinion whereof they had been so long in labour that this was the day on which they proposed as a Catholick assertion that the Pope speaking out of his Chair hath the same infallibilitie with Jesus Christ not only in questions of Right but also in those of Fact and consequently that one may believe with Divine Faith that the five propositions are the opinions of Jansenius It is not conceived needful My Lords to use many words to make appear that there is not here a simple Error nor a simple Heresie but a Source of Errors and as one may say a General Heresie which overthrows all Religion For your Lordships know that the first and principal ground of Christian Religion is this that our Faith doth not depend on the word of Men but on the word of God who is truth it self that this is it which makes it inconcussible and wholly Divine whereas it would be purely humane did it rely upon any Authority lesse than That of God or that we could not bear the like Testimony to our selves which St. Paul did to the Christians of Thessalona●a to have received the word which God was pleased to propose to us by his Church not as the word of Men but as the word of God as it tr●ly is Non ut verbum hominum sed sicut est vere verbum Dei All whatsoever is comprehended under the notion of Faith saith St. Bernard is founded upon the solid truth perswaded us by the Oracles of God confirmed by miracles and consecrated by the Child-bearing of a Virgin by the bloud of our Redeemer and the glory of Jesus raised from the dead Totum quod in Fide est certâ ac solidâ veritate subnixum oraculis miraculis divinitus persuasum stabilitum consecratum partu Virginis sanguine Redemptoris gloriâ Resurgentis Whoever then saith A thing not revealed nor attested by God as that certain Propositions are truly such an Authors of these later ages is an object of Divine Faith because the Pope hath declared it either establishes for the ground of Faith an authority purely human and the word of a man which is as much as to overthrow Faith or makes a God of the Pope and of his word a divine word and Holy Scripture which is not only an Heresie but a horrible impietie and a kinde of Idolatry For Idolatrie doth not consist onely in giving to man the name of God but much more in ascribing to him the attributes proper to God and the honour which is due only to him Now this submission of our understandings and intellective faculties implied in each Act of Faith is nothing els than the adoration which we exhibite to the primary Truth and so whoever pays it to the word of Man what rank soever he holds in the Church whoever professes he believes a thing with Divine Faith on no other motive then because a Man hath said it places a Man in the Throne of God transferres the honour due only to the Creator to a Creature and for as much as lies in him makes a kinde of Idol of the Vicar of Jesus Christ And that my Lords which will give you a greater horror of this Impiety is this that the Authors thereof imagin'd they should be able to foster it under favour of the respect which all the Catholicks bear the Pope and that no man would have the boldness to oppose it for fear of incurring his displeasure whereas on the contrary could any one commit a greater outrage against the first Minister of Jesus Christ then to imagine he could be honoured by a Blasphemy so injurious to Jesus Christ that it could be pleasing to him to be made equall to his Master by sharing with him the same Infallibility which he possesseth and that men should yield to his words that Supream Worship of Divine Faith which is due to God alone S. Paul and S. Barnabe perceiving the people went about to give them the same honours which they were wont to pay to their false Gods tore in pieces their garments thereby to express the extream displeasure which they resented and cast themselves into the midst of the Assembly to hinder it And we may with reason believe that the Pope himself were he truly advertised of this horrible excess would not fail to imploy his whole Authority to suppress these profane worshippers and would abhor it as a crime able to cause the loss of himself in the sight of God to give way to the least compliance in so detestable a flattery He would with trembling reflect on the just vengeance of God upon that last King of the Jewes for only suffering the tumultuary acclamations of a giddie brain'd people who hearing him speak cryed out It was the voice of a God and not of a man Dei voces non hominis For the Scripture teacheth us that immediatly the Angel of our Lord stroke him because he had not given to God the honor due

THE NEVV HERESIE OF THE JESUITS Publickly maintain'd at PARIS in the Colledge of CLERMONT by Conclusions Printed 12. Decemb. 1661. Denounced to all the BISHOPS OF FRANCE Translated out of the French Original Lucae 5. 39. Nemo bibens vetus statim vult novum dicit enim vetus melius est LONDON Printed in the Year of our Lord 1662. THE NEW HERESIE OF THE JESUITS Publikely maintained at Paris in the Colledge of Clermont by Conclusions Printed the 12 of December 1661. Denounced to all the Bishops of France AS it is the duty of Bishops to cut off whilst they are yet in the bud the Errors that tend to the ruine of Faith so is it no less the part of Divines to make Discovery of them and stir up their pastoral vigilance by giving them a timely advice thereof For which Reason My Lords you will not I am confident disapprove the Information given you of a New Heresie publikely maintained by the Jesuites in their Colledge of Paris by Conclusions printed and defended the 12 of December past which bear in Front this Title Assertiones Catholicae de Incarnatione contra saeculorum omnium ab Incarnato verbo praecipuas haereses Catholike Assertions of the Incarnation against the principal Heresies of all Ages since Christ Whereby they sufficiently intimate that excepting some subtleties of the Schools they would have us take for Catholike truths whatever else they advance in opposition to these Heresies They propose then for the Heresie of the 10 th Age the Schism of the Grecians and pretend by the following words to prescribe us what we ought to beleeve that we fall not into this Heresie X. SAECULUM Romanae Ecclesiae Caput contra Graecos Schismaticos HOc tandem saeculo Schisma Phocii invalcscens Graecos ab Ecclesiae capite dis-junxit Christum nes ita caput agnoscimus ut illius regimen dum in caelos abiit primum Petro tum d●inde successoribus commiserit eandem quam habebat ipse infallibilitatem concesserit quoties ex Cathedrâ loquerentur Datur ergo in Ecclesia Romana Controversiarum Fidei Judex infallibilis etiam extra Concilium generale tam in questionibus Juris quam Facti Vnde post Innocentii X. Alexandri VII Constitutiones fide divinâ credi potest librum cui titulus est Augustinus Jansenii esse haereticum quinque Propositiones exeo decerptas esse Jansenii in sensu Jansenii damnatas Propugnabuntur Deo duce auspice Virgine in Aula Collegii Claromontani Societatis Jesu die 12 Decembris Anno 1661. X. AGE The Head of the Roman Church against the Schismatick Grecians IT was in this Age that the Schism of Photius growing strong cut off the Grecians from the Head of the Church for our parts we acknowledge Jesus Christ to be in such sort the Head that he hath left the government first to S. Peter and afterwards to his Successors and that he hath bequeathed unto them as often as they shall speak out of their Chair the same infallibility which he himself had Wherefore there is in the Church of Rome an infallible judge of Controversies of Faith even out of a General Council as well in Questions of right as matters of Fact for which reason now after the Constitutions of Innocent X and Allexander VII one may believe with Divine Faith that the Book of Jansenius intituled Augustinus is Heretical and that the five Propositions extracted out of it are of Jansenius and condemned in his sense This Conclusion contains two parts One the Primacy of the Pope in which all Catholicks agree The other the Infallibility which the Jesuits attribute to him Nor is the question concerning that Infallibility which some Divines maintain and which regards only the judgements of Popes touching the truths revealed by God in the Holy Scripture and Tradition It is well known what the opinions of the Gallican Church and School of Paris are upon this Subject and what is to be understood by their words Sententia Parisiensium when one meets with them in the Books even of Jesuits upon this matter It is also known that those among some modern Doctors who would be most favourable to Popes as Dr. Du Val were nevertheless of Opinion that it is not a point of Faith that the Pope is Infallible Non est de Fide summum Pontificem esse infallibilem and that the contrary opinion is neither erroneous nor rash Non est erroneum neque temerarium temeritate opinionis dicere summum pontificem in decernendo errare posse But these same Divines how passionate soever they were to exalt the authority of the Sovereign Bishops do acknowledge as a thing certain unquestionable and agreed on by all Catholicks that in matters of fact they are not infallible but may be deceived and so really have been in sundry occasions All Catholicks are of Agreement sayes Cardinal Bellarmin that the Pope acting as Pope with advice of his Council nay even of a general Council may be deceived in particular affairs depending on the information and attestation of Men. And applying this general Maxime to a particular fact altogether conformable to that of Jansenius to wit whether the Heresie of the Monothelites were contain'd in the Letters of Honorius as the VI general Council confirmed by so many Popes had determined A General Council sayes he that is a lawful one cannot erre in the definition of dogmatical points of Faith wherein the VI Council likewise was free from error but it may erre in questions of Fact Generale Concilium legitimum non potest errare ut neque erravit hoc sextum in dogmatibus Fidei definiendis tamen errare potest in questionibus de Facto And Cardinal Baronius sayes the same upon the same subject of the sixth Oecumenical Council The Condemnation even of General Councils is not received with so much rigour in what concerns mens persons and their writings For no man doubts but that whoever he be he may be deceived in matters of Fact in which occasion the saying of St. Paul is appliable we can do nothing against truth but for truth In his enim quae facti sunt unumquemque contingere posse falli nemini dubium est All other Divines even the more wedded to the interest of the Court of Rome have hitherto contain'd themselves within these bounds But the Jesuits will neither admit Bounds nor Examples in their excesses and extravagancie● It is not enough for them to make the Pope infallible in the manner as some other Divines have done they must needs have it that Jesuus Christ hath given him the same infallibility which Himself enjoyed here on earth and as this infallibility of Jesus Christ reached to all things and not only to matters revealed but also to such as till then had not been reveal'd and which he revealed by uttering them so they will have the Pope to become infallible not only in proposing to the Church the truths comprised in Divine Revelation but also